Revolutionary: What skills can you offer for nation-building in the Black community?
Flags and poetry and bold words mean nothing without that one word in your opening question:
SKILLS.
Afro-centric Black people, and every other fringe culture group in America, needs to learn that their big talk is worthless if they can't do the basics in life.
A city needs, to sustain itself, energy, transportation, trade, means of social control, food, water, waste disposal and a means for education.
That isn't sexy, sassy or dynamic. It's just public administration. And people don't want to do it because that would mean acquiring skills, using them and having few to blame but themselves if they come up short.
Every fringe group in America depends on the mainstream, no matter how different they claim to be. If you think Pan-Africanism is a worthwhile goal, then go for it. But realize that "independent business" isn't enough. They have to re-create the entire net or not both at all, because they will only be fooling themselves.
Showing posts with label policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label policy. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Sunday, March 1, 2009
From Youtube: Working Poor and Education
I want to hear thoughts and contribution to policies for addressing these two big problems, which most people ignore because they obsess over democrats and republicans and their stupid song-and-dance.
THE WORKING POOR: The bottom 20th percentile of the country makes so little income that their condition is compatible to second-world countries. (The 40th percentile is only marginally better.) They have a reason for asking the government for aid, they can't afford it on their own. Now, back in the good-ol-days, a factory owner paid his slaves --i mean, workers-- only the tiniest amount and also lobbied the state to not "bail them out with other peoples tax dollars" because the poor deserved their swallows. They were uneducated and dumb. They obviously didn't have what it takes to be better... If the WE are any better than the devils in business suits who have ran Western Civilization up until this point, what policies address this economic sadism?
EDUCATION: Real, liberal arts education is the key to success in the 21st century and it should be something on the top of the agenda at all times. The New England families that influence every aspect of American policy sure as hell are a not an unorganized herd of cats. And they know the true value of education, which isn't reading, writing and arithmetic, but the capacity for a person to look at a problem, take any possible information around them and come up with a solution. Bears fish, birds nest and humans think and manufacture. We need education that can teach the underclass and the working poor how to do BOTH since as things are they are not taught to do either.
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THE WORKING POOR: The bottom 20th percentile of the country makes so little income that their condition is compatible to second-world countries. (The 40th percentile is only marginally better.) They have a reason for asking the government for aid, they can't afford it on their own. Now, back in the good-ol-days, a factory owner paid his slaves --i mean, workers-- only the tiniest amount and also lobbied the state to not "bail them out with other peoples tax dollars" because the poor deserved their swallows. They were uneducated and dumb. They obviously didn't have what it takes to be better... If the WE are any better than the devils in business suits who have ran Western Civilization up until this point, what policies address this economic sadism?
EDUCATION: Real, liberal arts education is the key to success in the 21st century and it should be something on the top of the agenda at all times. The New England families that influence every aspect of American policy sure as hell are a not an unorganized herd of cats. And they know the true value of education, which isn't reading, writing and arithmetic, but the capacity for a person to look at a problem, take any possible information around them and come up with a solution. Bears fish, birds nest and humans think and manufacture. We need education that can teach the underclass and the working poor how to do BOTH since as things are they are not taught to do either.
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